Helena Greenwood was a brilliant young scientist working at the forefront of DNA technology when she was brutally murdered in 1985. It took 15 years for the forensic jigsaw pieces to be put in place and for the prime suspect to face justice.
Samantha Weinberg has painstakingly retraced the story of Helena's killing, meeting the detectives, the witnesses, the families involved - and the killer himself. Jenni is joined by the writer Samantha Weinberg to talk about her book on the murder. Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA, by Samantha Weinberg, Hardcover, Published 6 March 2003 by Hamish Hamilton, ISBN: 0241141362